KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Vol. 1

Want to improve your homebrew adventures? The KOBOLD Guide to Game Design distills years of professional experience into a collection of design wisdom that can improve your game and vastly increase your odds of selling a magazine article, adventure, or complete game design.

This 88-page collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of OPEN DESIGN—is now available to the public for the first time. It also collects design wisdom from the pages of KOBOLD QUARTERLY magazine.

"Quite possibly, the single most useful book on game design I have ever read."

An oldie but a goodie; this has a a focus on game design within a traditional D&D context, and does it with style. If you are looking for gems like you might have once found in Dragon Magazine, check this out! [...]

People often say that they know what makes a good adventure, or the sort of things they want to see in one, but few - until this product - have attempted to tease out how to make it all work. Herein is a collection of 15 essays about the adventure desi [...]

Writing is a difficult thing to do. Sure, there are times where inspiration takes hold and you find yourself spontaneously creating literary gold, but those times tend to be few and far between. The reality is that whether you’re writing a book or a [...]

Wolfgang Baur’s just made me a better Iron Dungeon Master in a mere hour with his masterfully written tome, Kobold’s Guide to Game Design Volume I: Adventures. The 94 page tome of all things adventure writing feels like the dragon’s horde [...]

I knew when I purchased this PDF it would be of incredible quality, but even I was surprised about how much in to depth it went. All the topics that were focused were good for first times and experienced game setting developers. The chapters that I fel [...]

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